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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-12

[Technology] Chinese Bias for Baby Boys Creates a Gap of 32 Million: Sharon LaFraniere reports in th.. http://tinyurl.com/crhau5 # [China] ‘Positive signs’ for China economy: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao says that his country’s economy is.. http://tinyurl.com/cus4ha # Apparently @DanielLannon (from “The Frail”) is following me: either this is a hoax, or I’m so not worthy! # [Technology] 7 [...]
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Bill Joy’s “What I’m worried about, what I’m excited about” talk at TED

Technologist and futurist Bill Joy talks about several big worries for humanity -- and several big hopes in the fields of health, education and future tech [...]
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Ray Kurzweil’s “How technology’s accelerating power will transform us” talk at TED

Inventor, entrepreneur and visionary Ray Kurzweil explains in abundant, grounded detail why, by the 2020s, we will have reverse-engineered the human brain and nanobots will be operating your consciousness [...]
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